Sorry in advance if the question is naive...
Is there a way of forcing a (child) class to have constructors with particular signatures or particular static methods in C# or Java?
You can't obviously ...

I was working with generator functions and private functions of a class. I am wondering
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Inspired by this discussion, after some googling I wasn't able to find an answer to a pretty simple question regarding methods in Ruby: are methods objects or not?
There are different opinions here ...

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I've heard rumors that PHP is planning on introducing a "goto" command. What is it supposed to be doing?
I've tried searching a bit, but haven't found anything awfully descriptive. I understand that ...

I'm writing a code generator which produces Scala output.
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e.g. convert the expression c ? p : q to ...

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in one of my university papers, I have spotted the question 'Features of control and data parallelism in FORTRAN 90?'
Now according to my understanding, in-built array operations in Fortran 90 is an ...

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In JavaScript, there are two values which basically say 'I don't exist' - undefined and null.
A property to which a programmer has not assigned anything will be undefined, but in order for a property ...

I have learned that isset($array) is not required when checking for existence of particular key, however I also know that there is some reasons to check, without known key, if $array is instantiated.
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